Chapter Summaries

After learning from Yue Buqun’s secret booklet, Shazo left Mount Hua to seek martial arts clues that might lead to immortality cultivation. He found the Ancient Tomb’s inscriptions damaged and continued to Shaolin Temple, where a monk recognized his extraordinary bearing.

• Shazo read Yue Buqun’s booklet of martial-world dangers and changed his plans to prioritize restoring the Mount Hua Sect’s reputation.
• Shazo descended Mount Hua and searched the Ancient Tomb on Mount Zhongnan for True Person Chongyang’s inscriptions.
• Shazo found that the Nine Yin Manual inscriptions had been deliberately damaged, leaving only the Song of the Great Way intact.
• Shazo left Mount Zhongnan and headed for Shaolin Temple as a potential target for the Mount Hua Sect’s revival.
• A middle-aged Shaolin monk stopped two young monks from confronting Shazo and identified his bearing as that of a Heavenly Human.

Shazo entered Shaolin Temple and confronted its monks, revealing overwhelming power as they tried to stop him. He left the chapter surrounded by Damo Courtyard monks, facing them with a dead branch transformed into a storm of sword shadows.

• The yellow-robed monk warned two blue-robed monks that Shazo might be a prince or an ancient martial arts master, and a blast from Bodhidharma Hall soon shook Shaolin Temple.
• Shazo toured the temple until an old monk stopped him from entering Damo Courtyard, and Shazo challenged him to fight over Shaolin’s claim to the land.
• Shazo’s simple strike overwhelmed the old monk’s Great Strength Vajra Palm, shattered his arm, and left him badly injured and unconscious.
• The Damo Courtyard monks recognized Shazo as an enemy and surrounded him with weapons and Shaolin martial arts.
• Shazo drew a crooked dead branch and sent sword shadows surging toward the monks.

Shazo attacked Shaolin Temple to make a name for Mount Hua and demanded access to its martial arts collection. After defeating the monks guarding Damo Courtyard and confronting Abbot Fang Zheng, he faced Shaolin’s Warrior Monk Group when Fang Zheng refused to let him read the Yijin Jing.

• Shazo used a dead branch to defeat the monks of Damo Courtyard and advanced toward the Scripture Repository.
• Fang Kong rang the alarm bell after Shazo overcame him, and eight senior monks arrived with Abbot Fang Zheng to block Shazo’s path.
• Shazo explained that he had come to raise Mount Hua’s reputation and asked to read Shaolin’s scriptures, including the Yijin Jing.
• Fang Yan and Fang Hui attacked Shazo, but his Sword Qi halted them and left the other monks stunned.
• Fang Zheng agreed to let Shazo read the Lankavatara Sutra but refused his request for the Yijin Jing.
• Fang Zheng summoned more than a hundred warrior monks, who formed a circle around Shazo.

Shazo defeated Shaolin Temple’s armored warrior monks and demonstrated that its Arhat Demon Subduing Array could not stop him. Abbot Fang Zheng accepted that Mount Hua’s rise was inevitable and agreed to Shazo’s request, provided he swore not to spread the Yijin Jing.

• Fang Jue led the 108 warrior monks in the Arhat Demon Subduing Array, but Shazo drew his sword and wounded the monks in the formation.
• The fallen monks’ robes revealed their Wire Soft Armor, and Shazo realized they were armored rather than protected by an Indestructible Vajra Golden Body.
• Shazo moved through the formation and defeated the warrior monks while trying to avoid inflicting fatal injuries.
• Fang Zheng and the senior monks recognized Shazo’s overwhelming strength, and Fang Yuan concluded that Mount Hua’s rise could not be stopped.
• Fang Zheng agreed to Shazo’s request on the condition that Shazo swore never to spread the contents of the Yijin Jing, and the senior monks accepted his decision.

Shazo defeated Shaolin Temple, obtained the Yijin Jing, and spent a month studying in its Scripture Repository while Fang Zheng publicly declared him the martial world's strongest. As the Demon Cult disputed the claim and provoked bloody clashes, Yue Buqun used the fighting to expand Mount Hua's territory.

• Fang Zheng surrendered to Shazo, offered him the Yijin Jing, and explained that Shaolin had no Xisui Jing.
• Shazo entered Shaolin's Scripture Repository and spent a month studying its Buddhist scriptures and martial arts.
• Fang Zheng publicly named Shazo the martial world's strongest, prompting Yue Buqun and the Mount Hua Sect to react with disbelief.
• The Blackwood Cliff Demon Cult rejected Shaolin's claim and provoked clashes with Shaolin and the Mount Hua Sect.
• Yue Buqun retaliated against Demon Cult fighters and expanded the Mount Hua Sect's territory by taking their abandoned properties.

After memorizing Shaolin’s Buddhist scriptures, Shazo confronted Daoist Chongxu on Mount Wudang over his remarks about Yue Buqun and his approach to Linghu Chong. Chongxu apologized for insulting Yue, but Shazo demanded an explanation for his words to Linghu Chong and threatened the Wudang Sect if his suspicions remained.

• Shazo mastered the Yijin Jing, abandoned its cultivation, memorized the Buddhist scriptures at Shaolin, and left after Fangzheng told him about Chongxu’s visit to Linghu Chong.
• Shazo hurried to Mount Wudang and found Daoist Chongxu at the Golden Summit after struggling to identify the mountain’s many Taoist sects.
• Shazo demonstrated his power by sending leaves from a branch into the stone steps, then threatened Chongxu when the Taoist drew his sword.
• Shazo accepted Chongxu’s apology for insulting Yue Buqun but demanded to know why Chongxu had spoken to Linghu Chong.
• Shazo accused Chongxu of trying to foment division within the Mount Hua Sect and warned that he would attack Wudang if Chongxu could not clear his suspicions.

Shazo learned of Linghu Chong’s rise and Daoist Chongxu’s plans, then demanded Wudang’s Tai Chi manuals as compensation for the risks Mount Hua had borne. After securing copies and sensing True Master Sanfeng’s Dao aura, Shazo left for Blackwood Cliff and returned to the Plane Dreamscape while resting after crossing the Yellow River.

• Daoist Chongxu told Shazo about Linghu Chong’s recent deeds and explained that he had sought to befriend him to prepare for future conflicts with Mount Song and the Demon Cult.
• Shazo dismissed Chongxu’s concerns about Linghu Chong and demanded Wudang’s Tai Chi Fist Scripture and Tai Chi Sword Scripture as compensation.
• Chongxu agreed to provide copies of the manuals and explained that the original Tai Chi Fist Scripture had been seized by the Demon Cult.
• Shazo stayed at Wudang for three days, sensed True Master Sanfeng’s Dao aura near Golden Summit, and set off for Blackwood Cliff.
• Shazo traveled straight across mountains and rivers without transportation, then meditated after crossing the Yellow River and returned to the Plane Dreamscape.

The Shazos gathered in the Plane Dreamscape, where Naruto Shazo explained the growing difficulty of fusing Kekkei Genkai and shared how Tenten injured Neji. They studied Smiling, Proud Wanderer Shazo’s Dugu Nine Swords and struggled to understand Kido, leaving Demon Xiazhuo confident that Fairy Jin Shunyao could make sense of it.

• Naruto Shazo said his return interval had stretched to a year and explained that balancing his fused Kekkei Genkai was becoming increasingly difficult.
• Naruto Shazo revealed that Tenten repeatedly injured Neji Hyuga and that the Hyuga Clan punished Neji instead of defending him.
• Demon Xiazhuo shared Smiling, Proud Wanderer Shazo’s memories of Dugu Nine Swords, and the Shazos recognized its potential in supernatural combat.
• Demon Xiazhuo examined Shinigami Xiazhuo’s Kido memories, while the Shazos questioned why Kido seemed so inconsistent.
• Demon Xiazhuo promised that Fairy Jin Shunyao could help decipher Kido, and Naruto Shazo voiced confidence in her.

Jin Shunyao mistook the inspiration Demon Shazo had given her for a Heavenly Demon’s corruption and began a thirty-six-year purification that repeatedly destroyed and revived him. Back in Academy City, Shazo, Shirai Kuroko, and Misaka Mikoto got into a noisy bedroom scuffle.

• Jin Shunyao suspected a Heavenly Demon had influenced her after receiving inexplicable inspiration about Kido spells.
• Jin Shunyao activated her formations and began purifying herself with Purifying Divine Thunder for thirty-six years.
• The thunder repeatedly blasted Demon Shazo apart, but Jin Shunyao’s restorative spiritual qi revived him each time.
• Misaka Shazo woke to find Shirai Kuroko’s foot in her mouth and retaliated by licking it until Kuroko laughed and pleaded for mercy.
• Misaka Mikoto stormed into their room with a pillow and joined the fight, while Shazo and Kuroko teased her.

Misaka Shazo revealed that he had become a Level 6 Absolute Ability Evolver and explained the immense destructive and fine-control powers of his Electromagnetic Control. He persuaded Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko to keep his advancement secret, while Mikoto asked how she could reach Level 6 herself.

• Misaka Mikoto and Misaka Shazo joked over breakfast until Mikoto’s lightning flared through the living room, and Shazo halted it with effortless control.
• Misaka Shazo confirmed that Mikoto had reached her limit in raw power and would need to improve her control to advance to Level 6.
• Misaka Shazo described how he could destroy Academy City in under half an hour and control neural signals, chemical reactions, and electromagnetic communications within his field of vision.
• Misaka Shazo asked Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko to keep his Level 6 status secret, and they agreed after suppressing Kuroko’s demands and offering her incentives.
• Misaka Mikoto reflected on the difficulty of Level 6 and asked Misaka Shazo where she should begin.

Misaka Shazo explained how Misaka Mikoto could develop her Railgun while concealing the true purpose of the expanding Misaka Network. On July 20, Mikoto avoided meeting Kamijou Touma as the main story began, while Kuroko investigated the AIM Stalker case.

• Misaka Shazo advised Misaka Mikoto to train her control over electromagnetism and warned that advancing too quickly could make her Railgun harm her.
• Misaka Mikoto learned that the Misaka Sisters were being produced again, while Misaka Shazo hid the Network's global purpose and her own ambition to reach Level 7.
• Shirai Kuroko rushed off to investigate the AIM Stalker crisis after choking on her spicy pepper soup and taking Shazo's fried dough sticks.
• Misaka Shazo kept Mikoto from going out to vent her frustration, so they went to class without encountering Kamijou Touma on July 20.
• Misaka Mikoto and Misaka Shazo studied and conducted research while Kuroko searched for the culprit behind the AIM Stalker.

As AIM Stalker rapidly raised users’ ability levels and drove many into violent behavior and comas, Judgement traced a shared brainwave pattern to researcher Kiyama Harumi. Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto were ordered to help take their former teacher into custody.

• Misaka Shazo studied the Dugu Nine Swords and used its principles to link electromagnetic and weak forces, gaining control over microscopic changes.
• Judgement connected a growing wave of crimes and sudden ability increases to AIM Stalker, then discovered that users also developed violent tendencies.
• AIM Stalker users began falling into unexplained comas, and medical staff found that they all shared an identical brainwave pattern.
• Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto brought the brainwave chart to Gofah Meiwei, who found a match in researcher Kiyama Harumi’s records.
• Gofah Meiwei ordered Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto to help take Kiyama Harumi into custody.

Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto learned that Chiharu Shirai was with Kiyama Harumi and went to intervene after Gofah Meiwei located their car. When the Armed Security Guards cornered Kiyama Harumi, she revealed powerful telekinetic abilities and blocked their bullets.

• Shirai Kuroko realized Chiharu Shirai had gone to find Kiyama Harumi, and Gofah Meiwei contacted the Armed Security Guards and tracked them down.
• Gofah Meiwei found Kiyama Harumi's blue supercar on the elevated ring expressway and confirmed Chiharu Shirai was unharmed inside it.
• Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto teleported away to reach Chiharu Shirai and Kiyama Harumi.
• The Armed Security Guards trapped Kiyama Harumi's car in a wasteland, and Yomikawa Aiho ordered her to surrender and release Chiharu Shirai.
• Kiyama Harumi overturned the security robots with telekinesis and blocked the guards' bullets, revealing that she had Level 4 power.

Kiyama Harumi defeated the Anti-Skill officers but was confronted by Misaka Mikoto, who fought and subdued her. When Mikoto accidentally shared Kiyama’s memories, she learned about the suffering of the children Kiyama was trying to save and fell silent.

• Kiyama Harumi used mind control and elemental abilities to defeat the Anti-Skill officers without killing them.
• Misaka Mikoto confronted Kiyama Harumi, rejected her plea to stand aside, and challenged her over the people harmed by her actions.
• Kiyama Harumi shattered the bridge beneath them with matter disintegration, and the two began fighting below.
• Misaka Mikoto defeated Kiyama Harumi in close combat, electrocuted her unconscious, and returned to the bridge carrying her.
• Mikoto accidentally linked brains with Kiyama Harumi and experienced the children’s suffering and Kiyama’s pain, leaving her silent.

Kiyama Harumi lost control of the AIM Stalker network, which formed a monstrous being from the linked brains of its users. After learning that attacking it would not harm the unconscious people, Misaka Mikoto flew toward the AIM Stalker Beast to fight it.

• Kiyama Harumi told Misaka Mikoto she would do anything to save the children, then collapsed as the network went out of control.
• A strange infant-like monster emerged from Kiyama Harumi and grew into a giant, wailing creature with a powerful AIM Diffusion Field.
• Misaka Shazo identified the creature as an authentic angel, prompting Misaka Mikoto, Shirai Kuroko, Yomikawa Aiho, and the Anti-Skill officers to look up what angels were said to look like.
• Kiyama Harumi explained that the AIM Stalker Beast embodied the collective computational power and thoughts of its users and could recover from attacks.
• Kiyama Harumi confirmed that attacking the beast would not harm the unconscious people, so Misaka Mikoto flew toward it to take it down.

Misaka Mikoto battled the expanding Fantasy Beast and discovered it was drawing electricity from Academy City's power grid. With Misaka Shazo’s guidance, she identified the monster’s core and prepared to target it with a Railgun.

• The guards’ attacks made the Fantasy Beast grow, and Yomikawa Aiho realized it was heading toward the Nuclear Power Plant.
• Kiyama Harumi gave Yomikawa Aiho a chip containing a treatment program, while Chiharu Shirai took it to the Judgement 177th Branch for inspection.
• Misaka Mikoto attacked the Fantasy Beast with Railguns and Iron Sand, but its rapid recovery and growth prevented her from defeating it.
• Misaka Shazo helped Misaka Mikoto perceive the Beast’s core and the electrical energy feeding it, including power drawn from the Nuclear Power Plant.
• Misaka Mikoto reclaimed control of her body and fired a Railgun toward the Fantasy Beast’s core.

Misaka Shazo took control of Misaka Mikoto’s body, destroyed the AIM Stalker Beast, and absorbed the psychic energy released by its fragments. After Kiyama Harumi’s program awakened the unconscious victims and the Hanging Man agreed to pay for the experiment’s aftermath, Shazo chose to stay out of the Science Side and Magic Side conflict.

• Misaka Mikoto’s Railgun shots failed to hit the AIM Stalker Beast’s evasive, shielded core, so Misaka Shazo explained how to expose it.
• Misaka Shazo took over Misaka Mikoto’s body, heated the beast, separated its fragments, and destroyed its core with Shockwave Arc and Explosive Lightning.
• Misaka Shazo gathered the released psychic power, then summoned a thundercloud that erased the AIM Stalker Beast completely.
• Kiyama Harumi’s program awakened the unconscious victims, and the Hanging Man agreed to pay for the consequences of the experiments.
• Misaka Shazo dismissed the sudden rampage of Index as unrelated and decided not to get involved in the conflict between the Science Side and the Magic Side.

Misaka Shazo fulfilled her promise to Shirai Kuroko by embracing Misaka Mikoto, then tracked Academy City's surveillance signals to the hidden chamber where Aleister lived. She met Aleister face-to-face and challenged his reliance on the Tree Diagram Designer's calculations, leaving them in conversation.

• Misaka Shazo told Misaka Mikoto that she had agreed to hold her for Shirai Kuroko, then released her after fulfilling the promise.
• Shirai Kuroko saw the two Misakas embracing, fainted from a nosebleed, and happily muttered about having two Onee-samas.
• Misaka Shazo's electromagnetic clone traced the city's massive data transmissions to the windowless building that housed Aleister.
• Misaka Shazo infiltrated the building through its cable lines and found Aleister floating upside down in a life-support tank.
• Misaka Shazo greeted Aleister and said the Tree Diagram Designer had badly miscalculated Level 6 power, while Aleister defended his decision to trust its calculations.

Misaka Shazo forced Academy City Chairman Aleister Crowley to accept terms that protected her and her allies while taking half of his Sky Floating Wires. Back in Konoha, Shazo refused Shisui Uchiha’s request to handle Kumogakure’s growing threat, arguing that the Third Hokage was responsible for the crisis.

• Misaka Shazo confronted Aleister Crowley and used his vulnerable condition to make him sign a treaty limiting his ability to threaten her and her allies.
• Misaka Shazo took half of Aleister’s Sky Floating Wires but left him his authority and freedom.
• More than a year after his last visit to the dream realm, Shazo lounged in Konoha with Uchiha Izumi as Shisui Uchiha urged him to take charge of the village’s response to Kumogakure.
• The chapter explained that the Fourth Raikage wanted war with the Land of Fire to secure territory and population, and Kumogakure’s army had assembled in the Land of Hot Water.
• Shazo told Shisui that the Third Hokage was responsible for resolving the threat and explained that power came from solving problems and earning credibility.

Shazo explained to Shisui Uchiha that his influence among Konoha’s ninja rivaled the Third Hokage’s, and that acting without legitimate authority could worsen the village’s problems. Meanwhile, the Fourth Raikage advanced into the Land of Fire to pressure the Third Hokage into negotiating, while Konoha’s ninja began changing their outlook.

• Shazo told Shisui Uchiha that Konoha’s ninja would follow his orders, giving him power comparable to the Third Hokage’s.
• Shazo argued that he should not resolve the Fourth Raikage’s crisis without legitimate authority, and Shisui Uchiha fell silent.
• The Fourth Raikage’s past confrontations with Konoha had included defeats by Minato Namikaze and Orochimaru and Jiraiya, followed by the Kumogakure envoy incident and the Uchiha crisis.
• After three years of preparation, the Fourth Raikage led Kumogakure Ninja across the Land of Hot Water and camped in the Land of Fire.
• The Fourth Raikage refused to meet Konoha’s envoys and kept advancing toward Konoha, while the Third Hokage remained troubled and failed to notice Konoha Ninja changing their mindset.